From the Associated Press:

Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator.

From Sarah Palin:

I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.

From me:

I think I’m going to be ill.

YouTube link to a video of absolutely the coolest, if not a bit impractical, way to view subway directions on your iPhone. From acrossair and coming soon to the iPhone App Store.

Here’s a good way to customize your Mac’s Dock from Beautiful Pixels. Commenting on the trend toward highly crafted customizations:

At first it was abstract stupid stuff that made its way to ‘dock sites’ like dockulicious and leopard docks, but it’s only later that serious designers put their hard work into creating some visually appealing and functional docks, perfect as a replacement to the grey dock that comes with your Mac.

You’ll need Panic’s CandyBar 3 but the results are stunning.

Assuming you’re an obssessive compulsive Mac user who goes Monk-like bonkers when your Mac’s open windows get scattered all over the screen, you’ll like SizeUp:

SizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys).

SizeUp is really slick and creates neatly arranged windows on your Mac’s screen. One could ask the question, “Why bother?” Elegant use of the Dock prevents the need for tidy, unionized window management. It’s a solution looking for a problem. Unless you’re a Monk-like Mac user.

Companion window manager Cinch is equally useless at half the price.

Survey of computer use over 12 years from the University of Virgina. The trends are clear. From 1997 to today nearly all students own a computer, notebooks out number desktop PCs, and—drum roll—Mac market share is nearly 40-percent.

Each computing inventory is the compilation of statistics regarding computer ownership; type of computer; operating system; network capability; peripherals; and in recent years, mobile device ownership, too—among incoming first-year students at UVa.

Stunning trend. No wonder Microsoft is so desperate. The red bar is the Mac. Click for a larger version.

Since the iPhone’s launch in mid-2007, AT&T has been roundly criticized for poor network performance, both with dropped calls, and slow data speeds. Is it AT&T’s fault? Or, are network problems caused by the iPhone? Colin Gibbs on GigaOm:

AT&T isn’t the only operator whose network shortcomings have been exposed by data-hungry iPhone users. O2 — which until recently was the only UK operator to carry Apple’s gadget — said it will spend $166 million over the next several months to shore up its network to meet ever-increasing demands from smartphone users. Additionally, the carrier said it will build 40 new cell sites in and around London in advance of the holiday season.

It’s the iPhone phenomenon.

Voice dictation on an iPhone? Dragon Dictation, makes of Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows PCs, and the speech recognition engine for the Mac’s MacSpeech Dictate, launched Dragon Dictation for the iPhone. Mel Martin in TUAW mirrors my experience:

To dictate on the iPhone you just launch the app, press the record button, and start talking. Your dictation can be a brief sentence, or a much longer treatise. Once the text has been created from your speech, it’s possible to email it, send it as a text message, or put the result in your clipboard. After recording your message, you can edit the resulting text before you send it off for others to read.

The translation from voice to text is not done on your Mac. Your voice is recorded, sent back to Nuance for processing, then text is sent back to your Mac. I’m surprised at how good the dictation is. What’s Dragon Dictation cost? For now, nothing.